Best Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting services appropriate for different web pages with regard to the system resources or the shared hosting platform they demand. To select the most relevant shared hosting service for your site, you have to judge what server-side software it demands, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special demands that may need to be answered.

Shared web hosting - Upsides

The best alternative for small websites with several hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of web hosting, each user pays only for their account, which reduces the total price per customer significantly. There are different web hosting solutions differing from one hosting corporation to another, furnishing different quotas of web storage space and bandwidth, different mailbox account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get an account that will provide the features your web site in fact demands. You will not have to pay lots of cash for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small sized package that cannot host the website. We, at VirtualNIX, offer a wide variety of shared hosting plans appropriate for private or small business web sites that even include pre-installed script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to make things simpler. If you start with a low-price plan and you demand more features, upgrading to a better account requires just a click of the mouse.

Shared website hosting - Negative Aspects

A shortcoming of the shared website hosting environment is that the servers have some software installed on them and you cannot activate new software platforms. Specific online portals, mainly web stores, demand software applications to be activated on the web hosting server for them to run, and with a shared website hosting package, you can install solely software platforms that do not demand server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Servers

For websites that require full root-level access, or if your web portal has many 1000's or even millions of hits per day, what you need is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual web server is a software imitation of a dedicated web hosting server and it behaves in precisely the same way.

Virtual Web Servers

Both platforms traditionally offer full root access and can be restarted through a software tool by the user, autonomously from the hosting supplier. Just like the shared website hosting accounts, the virtual private servers and the dedicated server web hosting packages contain different specs depending on what the web hosting supplier offers. A private virtual web hosting server plan offers guaranteed data space, random access memory and CPU quotas that can sometimes be enlarged for brief intervals of time provided that there are free system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is utilizing, and it can be revamped by altering or appending components. A virtual web server is easier to manipulate as it includes a virtualization panel, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, explore stats, and so on. The administration of a dedicated hosting server is more complex, so such an account would rather be used by competent clients.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Still, some hosting vendors provide managed dedicated web server hosting solutions where they execute web server management operations instead of the client. This can be included in the plan or an additional service.

Before You Elect...

Settling on the top hosting package is vital as it can affect the stable functioning of a web portal. Prior to settling on an account, weigh the pros and cons, explore completely all the requirements for the website to function properly, particularly if it is script-based. And if you are still in doubt which is the best shared hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to assist you and answer all your questions.